Re: LOGO-L> eliminating items randomly from a list

[George Mills <mills@softronix.com>]

Frank Caggiano wrote:
> 
> George Mills wrote:
> >
> > Your solution is close but not really random (depending on what's
> > in the list).
> > Your solution assumes each element in the list is unique.
> 
> Your right. The original request spoke about a list of procedure names
> which would of course be unique. I should have noted that in my reply.

Why would the list of procedure names have to be unique?
I'm not saying your solution would not of solved her problem.
And if it indeed solves her problem today what if she changed
her code to allow multiple instances of procedure names tomorro?

Dealing with the list by position is simpler (almost half the code of
similar complexity), more efficient (no comparing data elements) and
more general purpose (works with unique or non unique data).

It's a public forum, someone may grab your (very well documented code
I might add) and use it in something else and think it truely removes a
random element from a list. Which by definition it didn't.

This is a public learning forum :-)

> 
> > Wendy Petti wrote:
> > > I have a list with 11 words in it; each is the name of a procedure.
> 
> regards
> 
> --
> Frank Caggiano
> caggiano@atlantic.net
> http://www.atlantic.net/~caggiano

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